Student Engagement Techniques - 2nd Edition by Elizabeth F Barkley & Claire H Major (Paperback)

About the Book

"This book will provide college teachers with specific tips, techniques, and strategies that will help them motivate and engage students. Modeled after the highly successful Classroom Assessment Techniques and Collaborative Learning Techniques, the book describes learning strategies and techniques drawn from corporate training and education literature. The strategies in the book, broken down into step-by-step directions, offer practical advice on how to increase motivation, promote active learning, build community, help students learn holistically, and ensure students are working in their optimal challenge zone. Each technique includes purpose, preparation, procedures, examples, online implementation, variations and extensions, observations and advice, and key resources. While much of the existing literature on student engagement is general and theoretical, this book emphasizes practical techniques and strategies that have been devised by experienced classroom teachers from a wide variety of disciplines and institutions. Concern over student engagement has become central to conversations regarding quality in higher education. Whether it is faculty frustration about facing classrooms filled with apathetic students or college presidents striving for higher scores on national surveys, keeping students involved, motivated, and acutely learning is challenging educators across the country. Yet, while both external and internal forces are putting pressure on faculty to better engage students, advice on how to accomplish this is not easily accessible"--

From the Back Cover

Practical Strategies and Winning Techniques to Engage and Enhance Student Learning

The revised and updated second edition of Student Engagement Techniques is a much-needed guide to engaging today's information-overloaded students. The book is a comprehensive resource that offers college teachers a dynamic model for engaging students and includes over one hundred tips, strategies, and techniques that have been proven to help teachers across all disciplines motivate and connect with their students.

This edition will provide a deeper understanding of what student engagement is, demonstrate new strategies for engaging students, uncover implementation strategies for engaging students in online learning environments, and provide new examples on how to implement these techniques into STEM fields.

"Student Engagement Techniques is among a handful of books--several of which are in this series!--designed specifically to help instructors, regardless of experience, create the conditions that make meaningful, engaged learning not just possible but highly probable."
--Michael Palmer, Ph.D., Director, Center for Teaching Excellence, Professor, General Faculty, University of Virginia

"This practical guide to motivating and engaging students reads like a quite enjoyable series of conversations held over coffee with skilled colleagues. It has been met with delight from every faculty member and graduate instructor that we've shared the book with!" --Megan L. Mittelstadt, Ph.D., Director, Center for Teaching and Learning, The University of Georgia

"Student Engagement Techniques belongs in the hands of 21st century instructors and faculty developers alike. Its research-based, specific, yet broadly applicable strategies can increase student engagement in face-to-face and online courses in any discipline."
--Jeanine A. Irons, Ph.D., Faculty Developer for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, Center for Teaching and Learning Excellence, Syracuse University

"This book is an essential resource for faculty seeking to better engage with their students. Anyone seeking a clear, research-based, and actionable guide needs a copy of Student Engagement Techniques on their shelf!"
--Michael S. Harris, Ed.D., Associate Professor of Higher Education, Director, Center for Teaching Excellence, Southern Methodist University

About the Author

ELIZABETH F. BARKLEY is Professor of Music at Foothill College in Los Altos, California. She is a nationally known scholar, educator, and consultant.

CLAIRE HOWELL MAJOR is a teacher, writer, and speaker with more than three decades of teaching experience in higher education.